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Communications green paper delayed while Jeremy Hunt deals with Leveson
DATELINE: 18/5/12
The planned publication of a communications green paper has been put on hold until after Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has given evidence to the Leveson inquiry and dealt with accusations that he favoured News Corporation in its negotiations to buy all of BSkyB. Those close to Hunt's Department for Culture, Media and Sport say the communications green paper, which will set out the government's initial policy thinking in areas as diverse as internet piracy, public service broadcasting and spectrum allocation, has largely been written but is now unlikely to be published until autumn at the earliest.
Dale Farm: broadcasters do not have to reveal eviction footage, court rule
DATELINE: 17/5/12
The high court has ruled that news broadcasters including the BBC and Sky News do not have to hand over footage of the Dale Farm eviction to police. In a ruling handed down at the high court this morning, Mr Justice Eady said broadcasters did not have to disclose unbroadcast footage of the eviction to the police.The judge said that the police need clear evidence of criminality when applying for production orders against the media.
Alastair Campbell at Leveson: great theatre Mr Jay, shame about the questions
DATELINE: 15/5/12
Alastair Campbell has rarely missed an opportunity to launch a demolition job on journalism and in the second round of his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry he was given free rein to go back onto the attack: he claimed David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband were all getting "disproportionately whacked" by the press in retaliation for having given their backing to Lord Justice Leveson's investigation into media ethics.
Phone-hacking police charge Rebekah Brooks
DATELINE: 15/5/12
Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, are being charged with perverting the course of justice as part of the phone hacking inquiry. She was arrested on 13 March as part of the Met Police's Operation Weeting. In a statement, they accused the CPS of "posturing" and said: "We deplore this weak and unjust decision." The couple will become the first suspects to be charged in an inquiry lasting 18 months and involving 185 police officers and staff.
Brooks at Leveson: an insight into how the Sun exploited the political endorsement of the Murdoch press
DATELINE: 13/5/12
Having been disadvantaged so often by the ability of the Murdoch press to deliver politically-inspired exclusives, I found Rebekah Brooks' testimony to the Leveson Inquiry a telling confirmation of what I and most other journalists had always suspected: the Sun and the News of the World had no scruples when it came to exploiting the privileged access which their editors enjoyed in return for the political endorsement of their papers.
Coulson at Leveson: a former spin doctor's master class in closing down unhelpful questions
DATELINE: 13/5/12
David Cameron's former spin doctor Andy Coulson gave an assured account of himself before the Leveson inquiry into press standards – he certainly avoided giving any incriminating answers about the way the coalition government dealt with News Corporation's controversial bid for full control of BSkyB.
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Bigger than Wimbledon? Make a note in your diary for the 2012 CPBF AGM
DATELINE: 2/4/12
Saturday 7 July 10.00am (registration from 9.30am)NUJ HQ 308 Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross, London WC1.Election of new CPBF national council, report on activities, Leveson and much more....to be followed by a discussin on the future of press and media regulation i n the light of Leveson. Speakers to be announced.
Leveson After Murdoch
DATELINE: 8/5/12
In their evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Rupert and James Murdoch left more questions unanswered than resolved... but their testimony was definitely a telling curtain raiser to the forthcoming appearances before Lord Justice Leveson of past and present Prime Ministers and ministers.
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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Schnews - weekly newsletter from: Justice? Brighton's Direct Action Collective
International Network for Cultural Diversity
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
AllConferences.Com - Directory of Conferences, conventions, exhibits, seminars, workshops, events, trade shows and business meetings. Includes calendar, dates, location, web site, contact and registration information.
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
corporation watch (US)
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
NUJ Brussels branch
One World
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
US Free Press
notwar.net - quirky international peace group with details of hundreds of campaigning peace groups
michael moore's site
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
europa: 'an internet site covering Europe as a common area of freedom, security and justice' - web site of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs
the memory hole
new internationalist
wordpower: books to change our world
NUJ New Media website
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
columbia journalism review
british journalism review
bad subjects: political education for everyday life - from the University of California at Berkeley
Observatoire Français des Médias (French only)
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
world commission on the social dimension of globalisation (ilo)
international federation of journalists
New book: Creating Fear - News and the construction of crisis, David L. Altheide
media watch mailing list
medialens: the real news from the US
One World TV
NUJ New Media industrial council
arab media watch
media alliance (US)
Civil Rights Movement
presswise
save welsh tv
Corporate Europe Observatory: CEO is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
who owns what - from columbia journalism review
Ofcom website - the uk's broadcasting and telecoms regulator
Brass Check TV
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet.
Liberty's 'yourrights' online provides information and access to advice on human rights issues such as free expression and privacy as well as information on the specific rights of various individuals and groups.
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
